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The Chedeville Kanter Opera Bb Clarinet Mouthpiece
Building on the success of the Kanter Cinema, the Chedeville Kanter Opera is the next evolution in our collaboration with legendary mouthpiece maker and studio musician, James Kanter. Featuring a larger tip opening than the Cinema, the Opera is designed for players seeking greater warmth and tonal breadth.
To meet Jim Kanter’s exacting standards, we engineered a proprietary tool to replicate his unique filing process, ensuring each Kanter Opera mouthpiece meets his meticulous specifications. Crafted from Chedeville’s proprietary rubber with precision manufacturing, this mouthpiece resonates across a variety of musical settings.
The Opera is the most open facing in the Chedeville Kanter series, delivering a rich sound with added depth and flexibility across all registers. It provides a responsive feel with a natural sense of resistance, allowing for expressive nuance and dynamic control. This mouthpiece rewards focused air support and musical intention, making it an exceptional choice for players across genres.
Please note that the engravings on this mouthpiece have been left unpainted in order to achieve Jim Kanter’s vision of a more subtle and understated look.
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A message from Jim Kanter:
“Clarinetists who will love this mouthpiece run the full gamut. It’s perfect for orchestra players worldwide looking for the depth and warmth without sacrificing the ability to project in large acoustic settings. That said, mouthpieces with these qualities are also very popular with chamber players and soloists playing in more intimate acoustic and musical environments. In other words, it will be very highly sought-after in today’s clarinet world.” – Jim Kanter
Asked to describe the sound of the new Kanter ‘Opera’ model, Jim said:
“Buttery warmth, point and flexibility. It has everything.”
We start with rod rubber, then we manufacture the mouthpieces from beginning to end in our factory in Savannah Georgia using state of the art CNC machines and expert mouthpiece craftsmen and women on the crucial and indispensable hand work.
Consistency is our obsession. That is why we have the most extensive series of mandatory measurements and play testing in the industry.
At Chedeville our goal is to create products that allow you to express yourself without any limits. One of the most important things to a player is the setup, the combination of the mouthpiece and reed. The mouthpiece is the first thing that makes your sound or your voice. We encourage you to embrace our “Life Without Limits” philosophy. We have made a mouthpiece which will not hinder you in any way and allow you to achieve all of your musical goals and beyond.”
